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RDz zUnit Enhancement - support batch and online execution

RDz zUnit should be enhanced to support CICS online execution. The current approach need to use batch to trigger a EXCI and then link to a online CICS transaction. This is not practical as usually the CICS online program will not be the starting p...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

RDz zUnit Enhancement - be easy and intuitive to use for the developer

More UI for more code generation is required for the test case program coding. It should further minimize the deveoloper effort to code the Test runner.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Improve handling of "Aux Trace Full" condition

Currently, this situation occurs all too frequently:the support centre asks a customer to create a CICS AUXTrace; the customer does so, but the trace data set becomes full and is closed.The customer then sends in a truncated trace.The support cent...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Enhance XPCFTCH to overcome PCUE_BRANCH_ADDRESS limitations.

XPCFTCH is given control before an application program is called by CICS.Various products use XPCFTCH to front-end an application program for various reasons.CICS allows for multiple exit programs to be enabled, and each exit program is called in ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide a Global User Exit point for program termination.

Currently CICS provides the GLUE XPCFTCH which is given control before an application program is executed. Various IBM and ISV products use this to get control to build an environment for their code to use.However, there is no corresponding exit p...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

UNICODE Support for IBM File manager DB2 GUI

File manager does actually only has support for EBCDIC code pages. This requirement is for support of UNICODE (CCSID 1200 and 1208).
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

reset statistics for EXITPROGRAM

Two repated requests: (1) For CICS regions that run 24x7 and run DFH0STAT at midnight to collect and print statistics. The User Exit Program section of DFH0STAT has a usecount that is never reset, unlike other statistics, such as program or transa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Add support to display AR Registers

CITI has requested support to display AR Registers. It was verified with support that this is not available at this time
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow for breakpoints prior to transaction

Need to be able to set conditional breaks before kicking off transaction.
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CICS nees to accomodate various Date and Time scenarios on the same MVS lpar.

Due to our Clients Globalisation expansion requirements, we have CICS Applications that run on a single Mainframe MVS LPAR that now need to accommodate varying Local Time differences, including varying DayLight Saving change Dates/Times, while run...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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